“Those who have judgment use it as much as in judging stones as in judging men.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
“The usual judgments are judgments of interest and they tell us less about the nature of the person judged than about the interest of the one who judges.”
The Tyranny of Hate: The Roots of Antisemitism : A Translation into English of Memsheleth Sadon (1992), p. 18
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Translation from Greek originalː "τὸ ἀληθὲς οὐ φύσει τοῦ ψεύδους κρεῖττον ἡγούμενος, ἀλλ' ἑκατέρου τῇ χρείᾳ τὴν τιμὴν ὁρίζων."
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Book: Cometan, the Omnidoxy